Hezbollah, Israeli army exchange fire across Lebanon-Israel border

By Wassim Seif El Din

BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah and the Israeli army on Friday exchanged fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border areas.

In a statement, the Hezbollah group said it attacked with missiles the Israeli military’s Ruwaisat Al-Alam sites in the Kfar Shuba hilltops and the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese official news agency NNA reported Israeli shelling on several areas across southern Lebanon.

It said Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese towns of Aita al-Shaab and Marwahin with several missiles, while the Israeli artillery shelled residential neighborhoods in Aitaroun town.

Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The border tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar